Nigel Cooke Exhibition
Andrea Rosen Gallery (525 W 24th St)
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Nigel Cooke has always possessed an innate passion to evolve and his new work wonderfully demonstrates this honed excellence in spades.
There is a consistently abundant amount of energy and support around Cooke's work. This has partially been attributed to his complete uniqueness and, of late, an awe of his tireless reworking of each painting, even at the expense of obliterating entire layers. All of what he knows fuels him to continue to evolve his practice. The revolutionary bravery of reworking has transformed now into a new type of risk that derives from making some smaller paintings in one sitting. A new and equally intense act of labor now exists and the results are ripe with a purity and deftness that has been informed by Cooke's experience with immediacy. This physical making of the work is one significant leap that Cooke has taken and yet there is a second; the role of the image has also transformed. These parallel progressions simultaneously unfold.
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from April 24, 2009 to June 13, 2009